Shaban Polluzha

Shaban Polluzha (1871-21 February 1945) was a general of the Albanian Kingdom during World War II.

Biography
Shaban Polluzha was born in 1871 in Drenica, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire to a family of Kosovar Albanians. In World War I, he fought alongside the Allied Powers against Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, but in World War II he became a commander of the Albanian Kingdom and fought against both the Axis Powers and the Yugoslav Partisans, turning the Serb village of Ibarski Kolasin to ash in late 1941 and fighting against Josip Broz Tito's partisans in the Battle for Novi Pazar. Polluzha later sided with the Yugoslav Partisans when they promised that Kosovo would be granted self-determination after the war, but he later fought against the partisans once more when tehy reneged on their promise. He was killed in battle with them in February 1945.